Reviews

Willka T’ika is not just a beautiful place in the Sacred Mountains of Peru where transformation takes place. It’s a gift to yourself that makes you feel cradled by the Universe. You realize this place is special the moment you’re greeted by Carol and her amazing staff at the front door of the retreat.

Fantastic! The rooms were beautiful. Clean and comforting. The hot water bottle was a great surprise. Food was 1st class organic vegetarian. I am by no means a strict vegetarian, but if I had access to the meals served here I would be! The Chakra Gardens are beautiful and mystical. We were blessed to have a tour of the Gardens from Carol. The Staff are the best! Accommodating and quick with smile and greeting. If I am lucky enough to …

It was the first time there and was very excited about it. It is a fantastic place, a little paradise with flowers, good and healthy food and very nice people. It was an experience I will never forget. I’d like to go back there.

I have just returned from a 10-day trip to Peru with a yoga group, which included a magical 5 day stay at Willka T’ika. I will simply join in and echo what so many other reviewers have said. Carol and her incredibly wonderful, caring staff partners have created, almost by miracle, a place that truly seems blessed. Healing gardens that intoxicate the senses and calm the soul. Beautiful rooms in buildings that blend right into the landscape. Special places for …

From the moment the gates open and you enter Willka T’ika, your mouth drops open in amazement at the vibrant, bold colors of thousands of flowers, your nose is greeted with the delicious aroma of every flower essence imaginable and your eyes focus upon the smiles of all the staff at Willka T’ika! I felt as if I was in Heaven. . . literally, and that feeling was present every single day I spent there. My room was expansive, and …

In Peru, even though we stayed at the Monasterio and the Inkaterra Machu Picchu, the place that surprisingly WOWed all of us was Willka T’ika, a garden guesthouse/retreat center in the Sacred Valley town of Urubamba! All eight of my friends were totally enchanted, and these are seasoned travelers who do not enchant easily! The owner, Carol Cumes, is a wonderful host whose vision has created a vibrant, amazingly verdant, sweet-fragranced, fruit-ladened, bee-buzzing haven of hidden gardens and wandering paths …

Thank you and all your staff for such a wonderful, relaxingand inspiring stay at Willka T’ika. Wow!loved all ofit. You most certainly have established the most beautiful restful retreat, actually a home. Whenever I chat to anyone about my trip, I share mythoughts with them about Willka T’ika and what an amazing property it is. They must go!

I have traveled quite a bit and stayed in some wonderful hotels but never encountered such beauty and peacefulness. Then there’s the staff; where do these wonderful people come from? The visit to the mountain school brought tears to everyone’s eyes and the beauty and kindness of the mothers and staff was heartwarming. Well, I guess you can tell we had a wonderful experience. . . . Our thanks to everyone at Willka T’ika. . . .

We are all back home now with warm wonderful memories of our time in Wilka T’ika. I just wanted to thank you again and your wonderful staff for making us feel so at home and like family. Everyone loved Wilka T’ika, but they loved the staff even more. And, I really can’t say enough good things about our guide. He went above and beyond of what I expected. Part of my workshop was on team building, and part of the …

Willka T’ika is the magical, special place that it is not because of its location (which is spectacular) but because of the people that make it work. Carol and Terry of course, Vidya and Theo, but also and perhaps especially, that wonderful family that ‘adopted’ Carol twenty years ago and have remained loyal. They are so cool. . . . Last night I was browsing my photos and reminiscing, and ran across aphoto from last August, me and my friend, …